], In 2012 a Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) club in Tyrone distanced itself from a republican commemoration of those killed in the ambush. [38] Hamilton stated that there were no security or civilian casualties. This was the last action by the Brigade before. A soldier was seriously wounded. [18] In August 1988, an SAS ambush killed IRA members Gerard Harte, Martin Harte and Brian Mullin. The IRA claimed the man was a UVF commander, responsible for the killings of Catholic civilians. [27] According to author Nick Van der Bijl, British intelligence identified them as the perpetrators of the bombing of the military bus at Curr Road. As for the warnings made by diplomats, bureaucrats and Eurocrats about the threats to the peace process from Brexit, McIntyre says it is similar to Sinn Fins use of the peace process to expand its political influence, where the process must always undermine the peace. He was arrested in 1988 for crossing the Dutch-German border with AK-47 rifles in the boot of his car and charged with attacks on British soldiers based in Germany. [50] The RUC stated the men were on their way to mount an ambush on Protestant workmen. Anybody who has ever fought in the Provisional IRA, as distinct to those who hid in the Provisional IRA, or joined after the ceasefires, will never live to see a united Ireland, he says. Five of them were bound over. An IRA volunteer was arrested, while two other members of the IRA made good their escape. [80], From mid-1992 up to the 1994 cease fire, IRA units in east and south Tyrone carried out a dozen bomb and mortar attacks against RUC and military bases and assets. From the Sunday Tribune. [68], At least two minor engagements occurred in the following weeks between members of the brigade and British Army foot patrols. The next day the IRA threatened any contractor who took on repair of the station. A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. Why would article 50 change that? says McKearney. The East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), also known as the Tyrone/Monaghan Brigade [1] was one of the most active republican paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland during "the Troubles". [104][58], Sources from the brigade released a detailed statement on the attack on Pomeroy security base, carried out on 26 June 1994, claiming that they had fired a single 220 pounds (100kg) Mark-15 barrack-buster bomb. In the aftermath of the bombing, on 9 May, a sergeant mayor of the 1st Battalion, the Staffordshire Regiment was shot and killed by a soldier of his company in a blue-on-blue incident at the same spot, while taking part of a security detail around the devastated base. 4 December 1983: Colm McGirr (23) and Brian Campbell (19), both members of the East Tyrone Brigade, were shot dead by an undercover British Army soldier whilst approaching an arms dump in a field near Coalisland. 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In May 1987, for instance, the SAS shot eight East Tyrone IRA volunteers whilst they attacked Loughgall . The device landed unexploded inside the complex, resulting in its evacuation. They had mounted a heavy DShK machine gun on the back of a stolen lorry, driven right to the RUC/British Army station and opened fire with tracer ammunition at the fortified base at point-blank range, when the long-range of the weapon would enable them to fire from a safe distance. 15 March 1974: Patrick McDonald (21) and Kevin Murray (27), both. [34], On 4 March 1990, ten IRA volunteers launched an assault on the RUC station at Stewartstown using an improvised flamethrower consisting of a manure-spreader towed by a tractor to spray 600 imperial gallons (2,700L) of a petrol/diesel mix to set the base ablaze, and then opened up with rifles and an RPG-7 rocket launcher. The soldiers were being transported from RAF Aldergrove to a military base near Omagh after returning from leave in England. The Volunteers killed at Loughgall were Declan Arthurs (21), Tony Gormley (24), Eugene Kelly (25), Pdraig McKearney (32), Jim Lynagh (31), Gerard O'Callaghan (28), Seamus Donnelly (19) and unit commander Patrick Joseph Kelly (30). 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[134]There were a number of actions carried out by the IRA in the eastern part of Tyrone from 1996 up to the latest IRA ceasefire of July 1997: Risn McAliskey, daughter of political activist Bernadette McAliskey and suspected IRA member from Coalisland was accused by German authorities of being involved in a mortar attack on British Army facilities in Osnabrck, Germany, on 28 June 1996. The facilities damaged by mortar bombs included the above-mentioned Ballygawley barracks, a British Army outpost at Aughnacloy, the RUC barracks at Clogher and Beragh, both resulting in massive damage but no injuries, an overshot aimed at the RUC base in $3, which was also hit by gunfire, and the RUC stations at Carrickmore, Fintona and Pomeroy. [26], On 11 February 1990 the brigade managed to shoot down a British Army Gazelle helicopter near Clogher by machine gun fire and wounding three soldiers, one of them seriously. They were killed as they approached the station with. Somebody who might find it difficult to smuggle because of a Border post might go out and shoot a Border-post official? There were no injuries. McGeough sees the Troubles as ostensibly a failure, but the UK government does not want a return to those days any more than anybody on our side does. 9 July 1997: IRA gunmen hijacked and burned a number of vehicles at Dungannon. [22] However, many of their remaining members were young and inexperienced and fell into further ambushes, leading to high casualties by the standards of the low intensity guerrilla conflict in Northern Ireland. [90] The facilities came under attack once again on 7 November, when a supporting team armed with automatic weapons secured the area around the barracks, allowing an Isuzu Trooper carrying a "Barrack Buster" to be driven just outside the base. Lynagh refers to the high proportion of social-welfare recipients in Monaghan, the county's "low-wage and no-wage economy" and his work distributing charity food to families. The UVF killed 40 people in east Tyrone between 1988 and 1994. The embarrassment is that a customs man might arrive and show that there is a Border.. They are saying to us: if you want to go down that road we are not going to step in your way. See: 11 December 1985: the East Tyrone Brigade claimed responsibility for mortaring Tynan RUC base, County Armagh in which four RUC officers were injured and the base badly damaged. 5 February 1997: an IRA unit fired a horizontal mortar at an RUC patrol on Newell Road in Dungannon. I dont see it has changed any bit since then, he says. [49] Another former UDR soldier was killed when an IRA bomb exploded underneath his car in Kildress, County Tyrone in April 1993; it was claimed that he had loyalist connections. [26] On 30 August 1988, an SAS ambush killed IRA members Gerard Harte, Martin Harte and Brian Mullin as they tried to kill an off-duty Ulster Defence Regiment member near Carrickmore. Instead Lynagh, McKearney and the other six IRA activists - Gerard O'Callaghan, 29, Tony Gormley, 25, Eugene Kelly, 25, Patrick Kelly, 30, Seamus Donnelly, 19, and Declan Arthurs, 21 - were shot. [17] The checkpoint was stormed and two British soldiers killed in action. [6] Journalist Kevin Toolis states that from 1985 onwards, the brigade led a five-year campaign that left 33 security facilities destroyed and nearly 100 seriously damaged. Along with Lynagh and McKearney, the IRA gang included Gerard O'Callaghan, 29, Tony Gormley, 25, Eugene Kelly, 25, Patrick Kelly, 30, Seamus Donnelly, 19, and Declan Arthurs, 21. [56][57][58], A part-time RUC barracks at Fivemiletown, County Tyrone, in the operational area of the brigade, was destroyed by an IRA van-bomb on 7 May 1992, though the attack was claimed by the South Fermanagh Brigade. [33] In October 1990, two IRA volunteers from the brigade, Dessie Grew and Martin McCaughey, were shot dead near Loughgall by undercover soldiers while allegedly collecting two rifles from an IRA arms dump. [19][unreliable source? [30] Journalist Ian Bruce claims that an unidentified Irishman who had served in the Parachute Regiment was the leader of the IRA unit, citing intelligence sources. The European Union is as much of an imperial power as if not more than Britain at the moment, Lynagh says. [64], Another IRA bomb attack on 12 May 1992, against British troops on patrol near Cappagh, in which a paratrooper lost both legs, triggered a series of clashes on that date between soldiers and local residents in the staunchly republican town of Coalisland, on 12 and 17 May 1992. [88][89], The RUC security base at Caledon became the target of the "Barrack Busters" twice. One RUC officer was injured. Over 50 shots were fired by the unit. [74][75] The heavy mortar round, fired from a tractor near the town's health center, was deflected by a tree besides the barracks wall. Gerry McGeough is a prominent republican and former member of the provisional IRA and now a farmer in Co. Tyrone. Former IRA gunrunner John Crawley says he used to meet Martin McGuinness in the 1980s in the Botanic Gardens in Dublin to discuss operations. McGeough points to the "huge statement" last week by David Davis, the UK's Brexit secretary formally, secretary of state for exiting the European Union who said that Northern Ireland would not have to reapply for EU membership as a new state if it voted for reunification with the Republic. He does not see republican militarism rising up again over a post-Brexit hardening of the Border or a customs presence on country Border roads, although he does believe that it would hit an atavistic nerve among people who have grown accustomed to freedom of movement across the Border. May has said that the British do not want a return to the Border of old. Not far from that Border town is the home of Gerry McGeough, a former IRA man who calls himself a traditional republican rather than a dissident. They concluded that the SAS were justified in opening fire. e The Troubles The Coagh Ambush was a controversial incident that took place on 3 June 1991, when a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit from the East Tyrone Brigade was ambushed by the Special Air Service (SAS) in the village of Coagh, County Tyrone. All eight members of the East Tyrone Brigade team were killed. G Bill Gannon George Gilmore H Sean Hales Tom Hales Sen Hogan Charlie Hurley K The two men have a long personal history linked to a time and territory around the Border that witnessed some of the regions bloodiest episodes. There is very, very little appetite among republican circles in the North for a resumption of any armed campaign. He recalls the EEC No signs that accompanied Brits Out graffiti around Monaghan when he was growing, up in the 1970s. Lynagh is irked by the way political parties in the Brexit debate are portraying people in the Border counties as lawless Irish, similar to the people of Pakistans tribal areas, with a pathological predisposition to violence who will rush out and go to war again because they cant stand the sight of customs posts. [121], IRA volunteers in Tyrone were the target of an assassination campaign carried out by the loyalist paramilitaries of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). [111] Nationalist politician Bernardette Devlin McAliskey suggested that the recovery of the machine gun was actually staged by the security forces as a publicity stunt. The 12 May's riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. The main target, Brian Arthurs, escaped injury. [9], Mural commemorating those killed in the Loughgall Ambush, On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched another attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. Unionist opposition to a united Ireland is, as he sees it, considerably stronger than nationalist opposition to staying within the UK if treated equally. The escape of former IRA chief of staff Seamus Twomey, Tyrone man Kevin Mallon and JB O'Hagan from north Armagh, caused a country-wide sensation and considerable embarrassment to the Dublin. Another four IRA members were killed in an ambush in February 1992. In initial papers filed last week both the British prime minister, Theresa May, and the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, referred to their desire to protect the peace process. That was not to do with economics. Maybe a lot of huff and puff but nothing is going to get blown down.. Military Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. On 30 August, an SAS ambush killed IRA members Gerard Harte, Martin Harte and Brian Mullin as they tried to kill an off-duty Ulster Defence Regiment member near Carrickmore. [114], Three active members of the security forces were killed by the East Tyrone Brigade during this period. Tusk has said that the EU will seek "flexible and creative solutions" to avoid a hard Border. Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no known paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. A support vehicle further compromised the getaway by flashing its emergency lights. [81] The facilities targeted by "Barrack Buster" mortars included the above-mentioned Ballygawley barracks, a British Army border outpost at Aughnacloy,[82] the RUC barracks at Clogher[83] and Beragh,[82] both resulting in massive damage but no fatalities; two attacks on the RUC base in Caledon, which was also hit by gunfire in the second attack,[83][84] and the RUC compounds at Dungannon,[85] Fintona,[83] Carrickmore,[83] and Pomeroy. On 17 January 1992, an IRA roadside bomb destroyed a van carrying 14 workers who had been re-building Lisanelly British Army base in Omagh. Another street fracas five days later, on 17 May, between a King's Own Scottish Borderers platoon and a group of nationalist youths in Coalisland resulted in the theft of an army machine gun and a new confrontation with the paratroopers. The operation. There were no injuries. [58] The East Tyrone Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), also known as the Tyrone/Monaghan Brigade[1] was one of the most active republican paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland during "the Troubles". [38] The IRA said that the men were legitimate targets because they were "collaborating" with the "forces of occupation". I dont mean that in terms of violence. [92] The projectile landed within the grounds of the base, causing some damage according to the RUC. [10] The first was an assault on Ballygawley base in December 1985. The armed vehicle crossed the border after the engagement. It is going to be very embarrassing for a lot of Irish political parties that almost pretended that partition was going. Next to the living-room window, with its panoramic views of the farmland and gorse-filled hedgerows of this part of the Border, is an imposing portrait that shows the tradition of agrarian agitation McGeough hails from. Ed Moloney, Irish journalist and author of the Secret History of the IRA, states that the Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade lost 53 members killed in the Troubles, the highest of any rural Brigade area. 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[147], The commander of the brigade, Kevin McKenna, was appointed Chief of Staff of the IRA in 1983. [14], On 8 May 1987, at least eight members of the brigade launched another attack on the unmanned Loughgall RUC base. Of these, 28 were killed between 1987 and 1992. [117][115] A second soldier, Sergeant Dean Oliver, died in a fratricide incident in Fivemiletown on 9 May 1992, in the aftermath of an IRA bomb attack in the area, as mentioned above.[61][118]. This was the IRA's greatest loss of life in a single incident during the . Meanwhile, in an interview in the Sunday Tribune [added link], Brian Arthurs has revealed that he was one of a number of former senior Provisional IRA members in Tyrone who, along with Sinn Fin party members, left Sinn Fin two years ago. Orangeism and Britishness in Northern Ireland. Sniper Assault Kills A British Soldier in Belfast", "South Armagh Brigade claims sniper attack", http://www.anphoblacht.com/news/detail/27929, Cousin of bomb suspect was top provo; But gun victim denies being a terrorist, Militants Angry About Police's Defense Of Protestant March, CAIN - Listing of Programmes for the Year:1997 - UTV news, 9 July 1997, Loughgall and why the truth will never be told, Articles incorporating text from Wikipedia. According to the brigade report, the van, fitted with a Mark-15 mortar, was left besides a military sangar. A Secret History of the IRA is written by Ed Moloney and published by Penguin Books. [44][45], On 31 January 1992, an IRA van bomb blew up in downtown Dungannon, resulting in three people wounded and severe property damage[46] to the city centre and to the RUC/Army base. Video: Simon Carswell. [17] The eight volunteers killed in the ambush became known as the "Loughgall Martyrs" among many republicans. Simon Carswell. [61][62] Among the killed were two constables who were shot dead while driving a civilian type vehicle in Fivemiletown's main street on 12 December 1993. 2 February 1996: The house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with gunfire in Moy. [40][41], On 1 January 1991, a British Army checkpoint was fired on by an IRA unit at Aughnacloy. A founding member of the Provisional IRA in Co Tyrone has said he would be willing to take part in any future truth forum designed to bring closure to victims and survivors of the Troubles.. [78], On 30 March 1993, one of the brigade units claimed they thwarted a British undercover operation by detonating an explosive device in the Glen, between Loughmacrory and Mountfield, near the spot where the British personnel were hidden. The fear that a hard Border along the UK's only land frontier with the EU could stir tensions in Northern Ireland has focused minds not only in Belfast, Derry and Dublin but also in London and Brussels. That same year, the Sinn. UTV News Report: In Pomeroy an IRA horizontal mortar hit an RUC car but failed to explode. Two IRA men got away from the scene, but the four named above were killed. [27][28] The helicopter was hit between Clogher and Augher, over the border near Derrygorry, in the Republic. Two more McKearney brothers died in the Troubles. Nevertheless, IRA activities continued in parts of Down, Fermanagh, north and mid-Armagh by August 1994. One of the workers killed, Robert Dunseath, was also a soldier of the Royal Irish Rangers. 10 February 1997: A horizontal mortar fired by an IRA unit hit an RUC armoured vehicle leaving a security base. (RAAD), an east Tyrone republican group, and a group of previously non-aligned republican dissidents from Belfast. The reality of it is that after 25 years of armed conflict there is less possibility of an armed campaign of any significance. This was in response to a complaint from Democratic Unionist Party Assemblyman William McCrea accusing the GAA of turning a blind eye to "republican terrorist" events in the last years. CAIN lists Boyd as a Protestant civilian. [115][64] Among them there were Constable Andrew Beacom and Reserve Constable Ernest Smith, the two RUC members ambushed and shot dead while driving a civilian type vehicle in Fivemiletown's main street on 12 December 1993. Interviewees suggest the vast countryside made rural IRA units particularly dangerous. There were no casualties. Gerry McGeough, who is now a farmer, served time in German, US and Northern Irish prisons for paramilitary-related offences, including trying to buy Stinger surface-to-air missiles in 1983 with the aim of taking down British army helicopters. Eight were killed and the rest were badly wounded. We have been neglected, McKearney says, citing patchy broadband in parts of Co Monaghan as an example. A primed Mk-12 horizontal mortar was defused near Clogher on 9 April 1992 by British Army technicians,[109] while a trailer carrying a 'barrack buster' was recovered by security forces and also defused in the same area on 16 January 1994. Other attendees were. Both Lost Lives and the Sutton Index of Deaths (at CAIN) list him as a civilian. [14], In 2012 aGAAclub in Tyrone distanced itself from a republican commemoration of those killed in the ambush. [24][25] This attack forced the British military to ferry their troops to and from East Tyrone by helicopter. 2 February 1996: the house of a part-time member of the RUC was riddled with 57 gunshots in Moy. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. GAA Central Council officialreply was that The GAA has strict protocols and rules in place regarding the use of property for Political purposes. The Association is committed to a shared future based on tolerance for the different identities and cultural backgrounds of people who share this Community and this island. [15], The SAS ambush had no noticeable long-term effect on the level of IRA activity in East Tyrone. [123] The IRA alleged that Dallas was a senior UVF member[124] but this was denied by his family, the police, and the UVF. [34] On 3 June, three IRA men, Lawrence McNally, Michael Ryan and Tony Doris, died in another SAS ambush at Coagh, where their car was riddled with gunfire. Dozens of residents were evacuated to a neighbouring church's hall. GAA Central Council official reply was that "The GAA has strict protocols and rules in place regarding the use of property for Political purposes. Her extradition from Northern Ireland was refused in 2007. According to them, a second 264 pounds (120kg) device was defused in the follow-up operation. [18], In December 2011, the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)'s Historical Enquiries Team found that not only did the IRA team fire first but that they could not have been safely arrested. The ambush took place outside the village of Pomeroy. [41] Although logically it makes more sense for Sinn Fin to start an armed campaign, that is not going to happen no chance, he says. McKearney argues that cross-Border economics has operated in a beggar-thy-neighbour way: Newry has over the years benefited at the expense of Dundalk, and vice versa, depending on currency fluctuations. [77], The commander in chief of the brigade,[78] Kevin MacKenna, was also appointed 'chief of staff' of the IRA in 1983. [7], Members of the East Tyrone Brigade had previously carried out two attacks on RUC bases in their operational area, described by author Mark Urban as "spectaculars". Photograph: Simon Carswell Taken: March 31st, 2017. Stephen Fuller (d. 1984), a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) during the Irish War of Independence and fought with Anti-Treaty forces during the Irish Civil War (1922-23). 22 February 1997: an IRA mortar unit was intercepted by the RUC in. The group were also responsible for the . The device exploded while he was driving on Carrydarragh road, near Moneymore, County Londonderry, on 31 May 1993, just a few miles from Cookstown. We are an unruly people, and if there is an opportunity to be unruly again we will take it, but it will not be violence, he says. A 'senior security source' claimed that the IRA was responsible. jim martin death couples massage class san diego beaver falls football east tyrone brigade members. Eight members of the IRA's so-called 'East Tyrone brigade' were shot dead by the SAS in a fierce gun battle at Loughgall on 8 May 1987. Five were bound over. This is not a land of milk and honey under the European Union. 5 July 1997: In Coalisland, a female RUC officer from. () The Association is committed to a shared future based on tolerance for the different identities and cultural backgrounds of people who share this Community and this island. [8] In April 1987 they shot and killed Harold Henry, one of the main contractors to the British Army and the RUC in Northern Ireland. The IRA responded by killing senior UVF man and former UDR member Leslie Dallas on 7 March 1989,[46][47] but the UVF shot dead three IRA members and a Catholic civilian in a pub in Cappagh on 3 March 1991. The 12 May riots ended with the paratroopers' assault on three bars, where they injured seven civilians. According to the indictment, another IRA member slipped into the United States from Canada with a munitions shopping list that included night vision glasses for a Ruger mini-14, 2000 nonelec . One soldier was seriously wounded. After being caught he was put up against a fence and killed. In 1985 and 1986, the East Tyrone Brigade carried out two attacks on RUC bases in their operational area, described by author Mark Urban as "spectaculars". Of these, most were Catholics civilians with no paramilitary connections but six were Provisional Irish Republican Army members. In 1988 he had been caught in possession of a 1,000lb bomb and sentenced to 16 years in prison. Dates highlighted in bold indicate three or more fatalities. It is believed to have drawn its membership from across the eastern side of County Tyrone as well as north County Monaghan and south County Londonderry.[2]. [31] An Phoblacht claims that the IRA men thwarted an ambush and at least two SAS members were killed. In July of 2005, The Sunday Times reported that Adams was replaced by Brian Arthurs, a former commander of the Provisional IRA's East Tyrone Brigade. [15][16] It destroyed a substantial part of the base with a 200lb bomb and raked the building with gunfire. [93], Other operations against security facilities in this period included a sniper and small arms attack on the British Army base of Killymeal, Dungannon, on 22 May 1993; the brigade claimed a subsequent exchange of fire between IRA volunteers in supporting role and British soldiers crewing an observation post. This is disputed by some authors as an "exaggeration".[132][133].
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